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<span class="top">The Book of Lamentations</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.</td>
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<td class="v">5:16</td>
<td>The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!</td>
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<td class="v">5:17</td>
<td>For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.</td>
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<td class="v">5:18</td>
<td>Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.</td>
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<td class="v">5:19</td>
<td>Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.</td>
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<td class="v">5:20</td>
<td>Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?</td>
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<td class="v">5:21</td>
<td>Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.</td>
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<td class="v">5:22</td>
<td>But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.</td>
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